MSBIAS - Noctiluca scintillans (Macartney) Kofoid & Swezy, 1921

MSBIAS taxon details

Noctiluca scintillans (Macartney) Kofoid & Swezy, 1921

AphiaID

109921 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:109921)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Type taxon of

Noctiluca Suriray, 1836

Parent

Noctiluca Suriray, 1836

Original name

Medusa scintillans Macartney, 1810

Environment

marine, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2026). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway (taxonomic information republished from AlgaeBase with permission of M.D. Guiry). Noctiluca scintillans (Macartney) Kofoid & Swezy, 1921. Accessed through: The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2026) Marine Species of Britain, Ireland and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications at: https://www.marinespecies.org/msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=109921 on 2026-09-01

Regional species database citation

The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2026). Marine Species of Britain, Ireland and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications. Noctiluca scintillans (Macartney) Kofoid & Swezy, 1921. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/MSBIAS/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=109921 on 2026-09-01

Taxonomic edit history

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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

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Brandt, Sue

2005-06-17 09:14:02Z

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Claus, Simon

2006-07-26 11:37:58Z

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Camba Reu, Cibran

2010-01-15 07:09:15Z

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Guiry, Michael D.

2010-12-13 10:09:16Z

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Guiry, Michael D.

2015-06-26 12:00:51Z

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context source (BeRMS 2020) Bio-environmental research group; Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries research (ILVO), Belgium; (2015): Zooplankton monitoring in the Belgian Part of the North Sea between 2009 and 2010. [details]

context source (HKRMS) Chan, A. L. C. (1994). Hydrology and the distribution of pteropoda in the southern waters of Hong Kong. In: Morton B, editor. Proceedings of the Third International workshop on the malacofauna of Hong Kong and Southern China.The malacofauna of Hong Kong and southern China III. Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong. 497-504., available online at https://doi.org/10.1515/9789882202139-025 [details]

context source (Schelde) Maris, T., O. Beauchard, S. Van Damme, E. Van den Bergh, S. Wijnhoven & P. Meire. (2013). Referentiematrices en Ecotoopoppervlaktes Annex bij de Evaluatiemethodiek Schelde-estuarium Studie naar “Ecotoopoppervlaktes en intactness index”. [Reference matrices and Ecotope areas Annex to the Evaluation methodology Scheldt estuary Study on “Ecotope areas and intactness index”. Monitor Taskforce Publication Series, 2013-01. NIOZ: Yerseke. 35 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

context source (PeRMS) Ochoa, N.; Gómez, O.; Sánchez, S.; Delgado, E. (1999). Diversidad de diatomeas y dinoflagelados marinos del Perú. Boletín Instituto del Mar del Perú. 18(1-2): 1-14., available online at https://revistas.imarpe.gob.pe/index.php/boletin/article/view/173 [details] Available for editors

basis of record Gómez, F. (2005). A list of free-living dinoflagellate species in the world's oceans. Acta Bot. Croat. 64(1): 129-212. [details]

additional source Brandt, S. (2001). Dinoflagellates, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 47-53 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Chang, F.H.; Charleston, W.A.G.; McKenna, P.B.; Clowes, C.D.; Wilson, G.J.; Broady, P.A. (2012). Phylum Myzozoa: dinoflagellates, perkinsids, ellobiopsids, sporozoans, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2012). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 3. Kingdoms Bacteria, Protozoa, Chromista, Plantae, Fungi. pp. 175-216. [details]

additional source Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2026). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway. searched on YYYY-MM-DD., available online at http://www.algaebase.org [details]

additional source Kofoid, C.A. (1931). Report of the biological survey of Mutsu Bay. 18. Protozoan Fauna of Mutsu Bay. Subclass Dinoflagellata; Tribe Gymnodinioidae. Science Reports of the Tohoku Imperial University. Fourth Series, Biology. 6(1): 1-43. [details] Available for editors

additional source Kofoid, C.A.; Swezy, O. (1921). The free-living unarmored Dinoflagellata. Memoirs of the University of California. 5: i-viii, 1-562., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/20306447 [details]

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

additional source Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/145561.pdf [details]

additional source Steidinger, K. A., M. A. Faust, and D. U. Hernández-Becerril. 2009. Dinoflagellates (Dinoflagellata) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 131–154 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College [details]

additional source Tomas, C.R. (Ed.). (1997). Identifying marine phytoplankton. Academic Press: San Diego, CA [etc.] (USA). ISBN 0-12-693018-X. XV, 858 pp., available online at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780126930184 [details]

ecology source Harrison, P. J.; Furuya, K.; Glibert, P. M.; Xu, J.; Liu, H. B.; Yin, K.; Lee, J. H. W.; Anderson, D. M.; Gowen, R.; Al-Azri, A. R.; Ho, A. Y. T. (2011). Geographical distribution of red and green Noctiluca scintillans. Chinese Journal of Oceanology and Limnology. 29(4): 807-831., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00343-011-0510-z [details]

ecology source Leles, S. G.; Mitra, A.; Flynn, K. J.; Stoecker, D. K.; Hansen, P. J.; Calbet, A.; McManus, G. B.; Sanders, R. W.; Caron, D. A.; Not, F.; Hallegraeff, G. M.; Pitta, P.; Raven, J. A.; Johnson, M. D.; Glibert, P. M.; Våge, S. (2017). Oceanic protists with different forms of acquired phototrophy display contrasting biogeographies and abundance. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 284(1860): 20170664., available online at https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.0664 [details] Available for editors

ecology source Mitra, A.; Caron, D. A.; Faure, E.; Flynn, K. J.; Leles, S. G.; Hansen, P. J.; McManus, G. B.; Not, F.; Do Rosario Gomes, H.; Santoferrara, L. F.; Stoecker, D. K.; Tillmann, U. (2023). The Mixoplankton Database (MDB): Diversity of photo‐phago‐trophic plankton in form, function, and distribution across the global ocean. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 70(4)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/jeu.12972 [details]

ecology source Subrahmanyan, R. (1954). A new member of the Euglenineæ, Protoeuglena Noctilucæ gen. et sp. nov., occurring in Noctiluca miliaris suriray, causing green discoloration of the sea off Calicut. Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences-Section B. 39(3): 118-127., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03050392 [details]

ecology source Wang, L.; Lin, X.; Goes, J. I.; Lin, S. (2016). Phylogenetic Analyses of Three Genes of Pedinomonas noctilucae, the Green Endosymbiont of the Marine Dinoflagellate Noctiluca scintillans, Reveal its Affiliation to the Order Marsupiomonadales (Chlorophyta, Pedinophyceae) under the Reinstated Name Protoeuglena noctilucae. Protist. 167(2): 205-216., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.protis.2016.02.005 [details]